Yes, it's all about the slot. Dealers know what they have in the upcoming months. Some are for customers, but some are just for stock. The stock ones can be changed to your specifics.

If you really want to know when you'll get your car, only work with a dealer that will be frank with when they can deliver.

 

Agreed

When I ordered in April, I was told that the dealer had three slots available for a June build. When I actually put the order in, the slots were pushed back to a July build.
But with the accelerated schedule for the 6sp F-types the actual build date ended up being the second week of June.

The bottom line is stay in touch with the dealer and get updated build sheets.
Good luck.

 

My father got his VIN today from his dealer. Ending 8544. Delivery estimate is 8/7.
V6S coupe 6mt.

Looks like it's scheduled on the Atlantic Conveyor to depart Liverpool on 7/10, which is odd as the manifest for that crossing doesn't list Liverpool as a stop. Oh well.

 

Very curious: All of the F-Type VINs I have seen to date started with SAJW. The Tosca is filled with SAJX VINs which would suggest they weren't built at the Castle Bromwich assembly plant.

 

Thought the plant code was the 11th digit. The 4th character is part of the Vehicle Descriptor Section.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicl...ication_number

 

So it seems that the trains haul the cars to the port from both factories, and they pull them from the yard to fill the ship. It seems that the east coast manuals went on the Atlantic Cartier, the Midwest and southern ones went on Torino, and there is a third ship that that seems to be headed through the canal.

Update in Torino; it's now 2 days past due to show up in Halifax. I am beginning to worry a bit about Nessie.

Orkney.

 

That's what I thought too. However, All thee base, Rs and Ss, both coupe and verts have started with SAJW up until now. All of a sudden it changes to SAJX

 

Looks like 21 of the vehicles got sent back to Jaguar from the port.
Speculations?

 

If I recall correctly from previous members who freaked from a "return to shipper" message, it could mean they just didn't get loaded on that particular ship. It doesn't usually mean they're going back to the factory, just that they have not accepted custody at that point and are going back to the JLR staging area.

 

I received one of those messages. I don't know exactly what happened, but it was about a week later and I was loaded on another RORO. I definitely wasn't on "the next ship out", but it wasn't that much longer until I was loaded and out to sea.

 

I've seen the same occurrence on every vessel I've observed. I assumed the vessel was just overbooked.

 

They probably always overbook. I would expect that depending upon the mix of vehicles sizes being transported, there's a lot of variability. In addition, I would guess certain "packer/parkers" are more efficient than others. They probably never know how many they can actually carry until the the loading is done.

 

The VIN for my fathers car starts SAJW, or at least, that's what the dealer told us it starts with.

 

Positions 4 through 8 or 9 are used for things vehicle model, drivetrain type, body style and things like that. Each vehicle maker uses different codes for these.

The most obvious theory here is that W is for the auto and X is for the manual transmission since this is the very first time we've seen them.

 

My fathers car is a 6speed.

 

Well, so much for that theory . . .

 

+1. Mine's a 6 speed with a "W".

 

I just pulled up Martime Traffic and saw that Torino has arrived in Halifax

 

Never let facts get in the way of a good theory!

 

Right, and never be foolish enough to hang on to a flawed theory when faced with new facts!